As Britain emerges from coronavirus lockdown, Boris Johnson has lost public trust

In the past few days, the beaches of Dorset in southern England were so crammed with sunbathers, as 500,000 ­merrymakers flouted ­social distancing rules, that local councils declared an emergency. In Liverpool, ecstatic soccer fans celebrated a Premier League title in an enormous downtown mosh pit for two days, refusing to disperse and battling anti-riot squads. The mayor called it “heartbreaking.” Meanwhile, in London, authorities have been scrambling to break up illegal “flash mob” street parties, complete with sound systems and DJs. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick complained that some attendees were drunk and violent, and that all were selfish and reckless, “seeming not to care at all” about their own or their family’s health. All this, and the pubs haven’t even reopened. That happens Saturday.